Publication number: 20030106090
Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of acetyl CoA synthetase (ACS), plastidic pyruvate dehydrogenase (pPDH), ATP citrate lyase (ACL), Arabidopsis pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC), and Arabidopsis aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), specifically ALDH-2 and ALDH-4. The present invention also provides a recombinant vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding one of the aforementioned enzymes, an antisense sequence thereto or a ribozyme therefor, a cell transformed with such a vector, antibodies to the enzymes, a plant cell, a plant tissue, a plant organ or a plant in which the level of an enzyme has been altered, and a method of producing such a plant cell, plant tissue, plant organ or plant. Desirably, alteration of the level of enzyme results in an alteration of the level of acetyl CoA in the plant cell, plant tissue, plant organ or plant.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 13, 2002
Publication date:
June 5, 2003
Applicant:
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
Inventors:
Basil J. Nikolau, Eve S. Wurtele, David J. Oliver, Robert Behal, Patrick S. Schnable, Jinshan Ke, Jerry L. Johnson, Carolyn C. Allred, Beth Fatland, Isabelle Lutziger, Tsui-Jung Wen